Brief Profile:
Graduate from UNL in May 2010. 3.75 overall GPA, 34P MCAT score.
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 10/12/2010
Undergraduate college: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 516
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 127,
C/P 132,
CARS 127
Overall GPA: 3.75
Science GPA: 3.72
Summary of Application Experience
Applied to University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Creighton University, and University of Iowa College of Medicine in 2009. Interviewed at UNMC but was not granted acceptance.
Applying to UNMC, Creighton, Iowa, St. Louis, and WashU MD programs this year. Also, applying to KCU of Medicine and Biosciences, Des Moines COM, and Kirksville COM.
Applied, Withdrew
University of Kansas
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 10/12/2010
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: No
Summary of Experience:
That secondary application looked way to in depth for me. Way to many tough to answer questions. Decided not to proceed because it was nearly the deadline and I didn\'t want to have to think all that hard for those secondary questions.
Summary of Experience:
Not close enough to home as I would have liked. Expensive secondary application ($100 I think). Decided that I would just bank on getting in at UNMC, Creighton, or one of the DO schools.
Summary of Experience:
Rejected after submitting secondary. Go figure. Despite competitive MCAT, it was a long shot, especially without research experience. It\'s for the better, expectations would have just about been over my head, or what I would want.
Summary of Experience:
I was accepted to KCUMB and had to decide by March 15th. ATSU-KCOM interview wasn\'t until 3/21 so I decided to withdraw. Kirksville also seems too rural for my tastes.
Summary of Experience:
Top choice for school because in-state tuition. Got rejected again after interviewing. Said I lacked a defined \"motivation to become a doctor\" based on my application. Wanted to see more clinical experience. That rejection news sucked.
Summary of Experience:
Got fast-tracked to interview (interview invite before secondary complete). Interview day was awesome. They seemed so welcoming and proud of their school. My tour guide(s) were excellent and knowledgeable. Interview was with a Ph.D, an MD, and a current student. Stayed with some current first year students who were quite welcoming. Even offered me a couple beers!
Great sense of community at DMU! The buildings are pretty much all connected by some sort of tunnel and the buildings looked really nice. Decent facilities. I was really excited about this school, and fairly devastated when I got the bad news.
Summary of Experience:
Two half-hour interviews. One with a student, the other with a faculty. In my case, it was a retired OB/GYN. OB/GYN must have looked highly upon research, because he seemed disappointed I didn\'t have much research experience. The student asked me to elaborate on many of the activities in my application.
Make sure you know about the Jesuit philosophy when you go to the interview. They want people who will embrace the Jesuit beliefs.
Only about 10% of applicants receive interviews (~650 interviews) so you have a decent shot if you get an interview. Results of application come in about 6 weeks after interview.
I was put on the alternate list, but had already accepted admission to KCUMB. Withdrew my application from Creighton.
Summary of Experience:
Pretty good looking university in a not-so-great part of town. Brand new facilities (library and student center) are going to be awesome. Good looking patient simulation facilities (clinical skills facilities all in a building of their own).
Interview was rough. Drilled on ethics by a pharmacy professor from Texas for about 25 minutes of a 45 minute interview. Other interviewer was a Ph.D. in biochemistry, she was much more pleasant of an interviewer.
Research better emphasized than I figured most DO schools are. Big in to HIV research, just for one.
3rd/4th year students have quite a selection of locations to go around the US for clinicals.
